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Vanessa Bartram

Vanessa Bartram

A Foodtech Investor’s Takeaways from the Plant-Based Bust

Plant-based meat received a deluge of negative press in the last quarter. While the hardest-hitting articles focus on Beyond and…

5 min readMar 24, 2023

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A Foodtech Investor’s Takeaways from the Plant-Based Bust

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Vanessa Bartram

Sending Gifts Made Out of Thin Air

In Israel, it’s customary to send gifts to friends and colleagues to celebrate Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. So what to gift our LPs…

4 min readOct 21, 2022

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Sending Gifts Made Out of Thin Air

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Vanessa Bartram

Seed Stage Slump: Why Israel Will Pick Up the Slack

Fred Wilson, the much-revered NYC-based venture capitalist has written much on the “early stage slump” as fewer and fewer investors are…

5 min readFeb 17, 2019

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Seed Stage Slump: Why Israel Will Pick Up the Slack

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Vanessa Bartram

As impact investors, we are constantly scanning deal flow to identify companies with exceptional…

But how to define which ‘problems to solve’ are worth working on? And how impactful does a company need to be before we’ll seriously…

5 min readJan 25, 2019

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As impact investors, we are constantly scanning deal flow to identify companies with exceptional…

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Vanessa Bartram

On becoming a better human (and investor) in 5779

A rabbi, a hedge fund manager and a sailor walk into a bar.

8 min readOct 30, 2018

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On becoming a better human (and investor) in 5779

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Vanessa Bartram

Where Are the Women?

Our blind spots as professionals, leaders and individuals emanate from a number of sources, perhaps the most pernicious among them being…

4 min readFeb 22, 2018

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Where Are the Women?

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Vanessa Bartram

Why I’m (Impact) Investing in Trees

Last winter, PlanetWatchers approached me to invest in forests. Not exactly in forests per se, but rather in the company’s Saas solution to…

4 min readJan 21, 2018

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Why I’m (Impact) Investing in Trees

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Vanessa Bartram

A Love Letter to Lisa Kleissner. In Bullet Points.

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes…

4 min readFeb 10, 2017

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Vanessa Bartram

Impact Investing in Israel. Yes, It’s a Thing.

My mother asks me on a near weekly basis what exactly it is I do for a living. The inevitable follow-up question is when, preferably in…

6 min readFeb 10, 2017

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Impact Investing in Israel. Yes, It’s a Thing.

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Vanessa Bartram

Vanessa Bartram

Backing Israel’s most impactful tech startups as Managing Partner @ ZORA.vc. Part-time pirate, full-time geek. #climate #foodtech #agtech #impinv #israel #vc

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